Don't use sideloading. It's gaslighting word they planted.. we own the device.. should be just called installing.. they are stoping you from installing what you want.
Downloading is copying a file from the network onto the local device. Installation extracts files to the appropriate directories, makes config changes, etc.. "Installed from a local source" doesnt make sense, as any file you would install you would first need to download or pull off of some other media.
You don't say "downloaded from a cd" do you? No, you install from a cd. If the primary delivery method for PC was via app store, you'd say "sideloaded" there too.
Downloading from an app store doesn't place an installer APK from an app store on the device's storage, like you do when downloading on a PC.
This difference is why the term "sideloading" was coined, to differentiate from using the primary delivery mechanism, the app store.
No it not. If I have a local .exe file on my HD and install it on my PC you don't say " I side loaded this software " you usually say " Iinstallled this piece of software ". Don't succumb to the conditioning these companies want us to believe.
So here is an idea, and hear me out on this one: you could use multiple words to indicate what you're trying to say, I do believe language allows for that.
Unless you want to have separate new words for walking to a hospital, walking to a school, walking to work, and walking to the bathroom, because the word walking alone can't do that!
Meat used to refer to any kind of food. Now it means animal flesh. Girl used to be a gender neutral term for any child.
Install in a smartphone context means "from the app store" now.
No amount of "here is an idea" hohoho sarcasm is going to reverse the flow of language.
No one's forbidding you from using the word install.
We have universal words like go, as in "go by foot" or "go by car" or "go by bus".
But we also have words like walk, run, drive, bus (as a verb), and Uber to specify how you go to a place.
And we can have words to specify how you install an app.
In my opinion, we're more likely to win by reclaiming sideloading (by giving it a positive connotation) or creating new words (and giving corpo installs a negative connotation) than we are to get current and future smartphone users to go back to using an older definition of the word install.
I'm gonna keep using the word "sideloading" because it is a perfectly legitimate act and I refuse to let them redefine it to demonize us. I'm not sure why you're helping them.
If you're wondering if you would still be able to plug your phone into your computer to put files on it, let me ask you a related question: Do you think Google would kill the ability to plug your phone in and take pictures and video off of it? I think the answer to that is pretty obvious.
I'm not sure about the medium-term future, but in the short-term you'll still be able to install APK files after the changes go through. Google is retaining installation via ADB for now, and applications like anyapk make it so that you don't need to plug your phone into a PC and open up the terminal.
I know there's many people who cannot understand why others like to watch media on their phones, but that is how it is. You basically have that device anywhere with you, screens are big enough to watch stuff on.
Especially if you have saved movies/series on it, no matter if piracy or not, you got sonething to watch on that long train ride to work, or in your lunch break, or when you wait for some appointment.
Source: me, I am one of those. I am not taking my laptop everywhere. Even the smallest feasibly usable laptop is much bigger than my phone.
One of my co-workers has no computer, laptop or desktop, and does all his digital-seas sailing on his phone. I've been trying to convince him to finally get around to actually getting something low cost, but his "setup" has been working for him for years now
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Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has inserted himself into discussions over the site’s “Gaza genocide” page, saying that it has issues with neutrality and “requires immediate correction.”
Nexperia, Chinese-owned but based in the Netherlands, makes billions of simple but ubiquitous chips that auto suppliers use in parts ranging from brakes and electric windows to lights and entertainment systems.
Nissan Motor will cut production of its top-selling Rogue SUV in Japan by about 900 vehicles from next week due to a short supply of chips from Nexperia, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Germany, home to major automakers such as Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz, said it was lobbying China in the interests of German customers of Nexperia through all available channels.
European carmakers and suppliers have rushed to apply to China for Nexperia chip export exemptions, which need to be paid for in Chinese currency, or have sought alternative suppliers.
Nissan will reportedly trim production of its top-selling Rogue SUV in Japan due to a shortage of Nexperia chips, while Germany said it is discussing the matter with affected companies.
The whole trade situation taken over the news and missed why the company was nationalized in the first place. It was mismanaged and used a personal fund by the CEO. It was under investigation long before the trade war.
The move followed an emergency hearing by the Dutch Enterprise Chamber on October 7, which concluded that there may be “valid reasons to doubt sound management at Nexperia under the leadership of former CEO Zhang Xuezheng”, a statement from the company said.
New court records published by the paper allegedly show that Chinese executive and founder of Nexperia's parent company, Wingtech, Zhang Xuezheng, forced Nexperia to place an order with his privately owned chip factory, WingSkySemi in Shanghai, worth over $200 million. That, despite it actually requiring less than $100 million worth for its own production needs.
Sure and when was the last time a company in Europe was nationalized for similar reasons? That's right, it never happens, except to targets of the empire. Mismanagement? Corruption? Tax fraud? They are ubiquitous. European politicians see it as their foremost duty to protect the guilty CEOs, stakeholders and companies.
So-called Cum-Cum and Cum-Ex tax schemes are still costing many European countries billions in lost revenue. In Germany, questions are mounting why the state is doing so little to stop them.
I'm not disputing that company being tied China had an impact in the assessment, but presenting it as the only reason is disingenuous and that seems to be the narrative the media.
To give a few examples: Talvivaara Sotkamo Ltd in Finland, Parex Bank in Latvia, Snoras in Lithuania.
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[li]Julian (myself) and Ted ([url=https://mastodon.social/@TallTed]@tallted@mastodon.social[/url]) began the session discussing moderation tool
Apologies in advance if I misrepresented anybody or missed any crucial bits of information.
Julian (myself) and Ted (tallted@mastodon.social) began the session discussing moderation tools in USENET
There are comparable systems to how the threadiverse propagates content. Messages are sent to a remote server who is then responsible for distribution.
In relation to moderation, there was more ambiguity. Local users could set up their own kill file but whether moderation could be done from the remote server was not discussed.
We discuss more about actions done to contexts (aka topics, threads)
Dmitri (dmitri@social.coop) joins at or before this point, and points out that there continues to be confusion over the context property and @context.
Example actions are offered: Removing a context from an audience, and locking a context from new contributions
Re: crossposting, Ted discusses the need for implementor changes to allow for contexts to be a part of multiple audiences
ed: much of the discussion at this point shifts away from ForumWG terminology and toward email nomenclature for ease of understanding. ForumWG nomenclature is used for these minutes
Dmitri points out that a breaking change to AP might be needed in order to break apart header (addressing/recipients) and body
Julian asks why, and Dmitri mentions signing difficulties wrt bto and bcc.
Julian asks if anybody uses bto and bcc, and Dmitri says "yes, absolutely", and said we should check out darius@friend.camp's Fediverse Observatory for the answer
Julian says that as currently implemented, resolvable contexts do not necessarily need to be inherited. Lemmy explicitly does not want to inherit contexts, and their published contexts always refer to a local representation (ping nutomic)
Julian steps through an example. NodeBB A federates context /topic/1, NodeBB B receives the topic and assigns it /topic/4bdffa. A later Removes the context. B doesn't know what A/topic/1 is so needs to resolve it, get its' root post, and see if it matches any know context on B, then act on it.
Ted and Dmitri caution that this is difficult and messy, and strongly recommend that the root-level context must be inherited
For what it's worth, Ted and Dmitri convinced me that we need to move toward a strict inheritance of the root object's context. It means a little more work upfront but will make it easier down the line.
This post is where we continue that discussion, asynchronously, so stay tuned!
only if the "root" (of the reply tree, i assume) has the same context you want to participate in. there are plenty of situations where you *don't* necessarily want to do this. replies can cross contextual boundaries, so you need to account for this.
trwnh@mastodon.social Yes, you're right. There are nuances and situations where you would explicitly not want to inherit the root object's context.
I am dealing with the typical day-to-day use case of replying to an object with the expectation that is be part of the same existing context.
However I am more than happy to make this clear in the FEP and spell out alternative situations where context inheritance would not apply.
The situation I found myself in was one where anybody can (and does) include whatever context they want. In that case, it's difficult to determine whether disparate contexts are actually referring to a common set of the same objects, or whether they were disparate on purpose (i.e. a fork.)
To that end, it meant that as a receiver there was no guarantee that any contexts I'd be sent would map to any contexts I know.
Strict root-level inheritance for the common use-case would at least disambiguate a lot of this.
> The object SHOULD inherit a context other than its own. It is RECOMMENDED that the object inherit the context of the object it is in reply to. Doing so will allow for all members of a context collection (per FEP f228) to refer to the same context. > > The object MAY inherit context further up the chain.
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> The object MUST inherit the context from the root node, if one is reported. Otherwise the object MUST NOT publish a context. Doing so will allow for all members of a context collection (per FEP f228) to refer to the same context. > > Implementors SHOULD map that inherited context to a local identifier (if applicable) to support future use-cases/activities.
trwnh@mastodon.social ForumWG moving toward recommending that the root node's context MUST be inherited is not incompatible with 7888 per se, but 7888 does allow for creating your own context.
I think this might be a blessing in disguise. In situations where the root node doesn't contain a context at all, then creating your own context has its place. I am not sure how this would work when you try to do moderation actions against a context that isn't really yours though.
i don't think that's the right way to look at it. the reply tree and the context are separate things. you can *try* to find the root of the reply tree, but even if you do, there is no hard requirement to copy that context vs any other context. you get to choose which conversation you want to be a part of, including choosing *not* to be part of a conversation. also, any id may be equivalent to other ids. what you want is to arrive at the same information.
so generally creating your own context is something you'd want to do if you e.g. "fork" the thread, but you can also be like what lemmy is proposing and just always create your own local context, as long as you give consumers a way to link/merge equivalent contexts together (via something like as:alsoKnownAs or owl:sameAs, or otherwise something like rel=canonical)
California-based startup Reflect Orbital aims to build a swarm of 4,000 giant mirrors in low Earth orbit to "sell sunlight" to customers at night. Experts warn that the mirrors could mess with telescopes, blind stargazers and impact the environment.
Reflect Orbital, which was founded in 2021, has recently taken the first step in a scheme to sell sunlight at night by bouncing solar rays off giant "reflectors" that can redirect the vital resource almost anywhere on our planet. By doing this, the company aims to extend daylight hours in specific locations, thus allowing paying customers to generate solar power, grow crops and replace urban lighting.
But experts say it is a wildly impractical plan that should never get off the ground. What's more, the resulting light pollution could devastate ground-based astronomy, distract aircraft pilots and even blind stargazers.
"Woah, woah, woah, those previous patents were earned through very hard work from our "lobbyist". If you do that, I want the bribe money back... I mean lobby money!"
The company said it is currently testing new interactive video ad formats in the U.S. and Canada, with a goal of zeroing in on subscribers’ viewing behavior and letting advertisers rely on templates built from that behavior. Citing positive early results from testing, Netflix said it will roll out the formats globally by the second quarter of 2026.
The Netflix user interface has become a mess to navigate, and mostly only ever shows me things I've already watched. If they'd put even a tiny bit of the effort they're putting into driving people to watch certain content they produced or are paid to promote and their ad framework into making it possible to find new content and improving the content they do produce (damn the "AI"-based effects and skin smoothing nonsense and shitty writing in the second season of Wednesday pissed me off), I might be willing to stick around but at this point I've rarely been using it anymore. Sad to see the fall...
Most of them are built around lazy algorithmic feeds like this. It's very hard to search for specific things, you're just expected to eat whatever they serve up to you.
A bipartisan pair of US Senators has introduced a bill that would require companies and government agencies to report AI-related layoffs, and it couldn't come at a better time. October jobs data suggests AI is driving the largest wave of layoffs headed into the end of the year that we've seen since 2003.
Senators Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Mark Warner (D-VA) on Wednesday announced plans to introduce the AI-Related Job Impacts Clarity Act. If passed, the law requires public companies and pretty much every single federal government agency to hand quarterly layoff data over to the Department of Labor, indicating how many jobs they cut due to automation.
The act would also require employers to report on a quarterly basis how many people they hired related to AI and automation, how many jobs they decided not to fill thanks to AI, and numbers on retraining due to artificial intelligence. The end goal, said Warner, is to help Congress understand how the labor market is changing and how to prepare for the future.
Dopo aver annunciato i rappresentanti lo scorso 23 settembre, oggi è stato rivelato il brano che canteranno Rafaella & Christos in rappresentanza di Cipro allo Junior Eurovision 2025 a Tbilisi. Il brano è stato pubblicato stamattina alle 8:30 durante il programma “Omorfi Mera” su RIK1, l’emittente principale dell’isola del Mediterraneo. È stato scritto da un team interamente non cipriota, ovvero da Andy...
This is a deep cut. There’s a solo John Lennon track called “Remember” off the Plastic Ono Band album. He closes it by screaming “Remember the 5th of November!” followed by an explosion.
It was a reference to Guy Fawkes Day, marking an infamous plot to blow up the British Parliament in 1605 that ended with the perpetrator’s head on a spike.
But that lyric hits a bit different after last year’s presidential election. Because on November 5, 2024, America rewarded a man who tried to blow up our system of government by pushing election lies that incited an attack on our capital.
Seen through the eyes of history, it looks like an act of self-immolation by our nation. That’s exactly why we need to be firefighters rather than arsonists to counteract its impact.
American democracy is an outlier. We are the world’s longest-lasting large democracy and the first nation founded upon an idea rather than a tribal identity. We’ve always been imperfect people working to form a more perfect union.
Afunny thing happened to our political blowhard class on its way to its next appointed bout of savvy prognosticating. As breathless pundits looked to this week’s handful of off-year elections for telltale signs of the country’s mood swings, the news broke that President Donald Trump has reached a new low in his national approval ratings. In a CNN poll released Monday, 63 percent of respondents disapproved of his performance in office, leaving just 37 percent approving. As polling analyst G. Elliot Morris notes, the 26 point net gap in disapproval is the lowest Trump has ever clocked—even in the aftermath of the January 6 insurrection, when many observers predicted his political demise. By comparison, an enfeebled and marginalized Joe Biden sported a 40 percent approval rating when he left office. A plurality of 42 percent approval would show Trump holding on to the 2024 coalition that elected him, but this latest swoon indicates that independents and even traditional GOP supporters are turning against him. Meanwhile, The Economist’s poll tracker shows that Trump’s approval is underwater in all seven of the swing states he carried last November, as well as in Texas. That’s right: The state that’s frantically (and secretively) redrawing its congressional maps to suit Trump’s whims—and has even filed an actual lawsuit against Tylenol based on Trump and RFK Jr.’s fabricated claims that the pain suppressant promotes autism in utero—has soured on Trump’s agenda.
It’s easy to make too much of snapshot surveys of presidential approval, but, as Morris also notes, polling averages have been trending strongly away from Trump over the past two weeks. The intensity of that disapproval is also striking: “Depending on the polls you pick for your average,” Morris writes, “between 46 and 50 percent of U.S. adults tell pollsters they “strongly disapprove” of the job Trump is doing as president. That is double the percent that strongly approve…. Put another way, less than half of the people who voted for Trump in 2024 currently ‘strongly approve’ of his presidency.” When you factor in disapproval among respondents who didn’t vote in the last election, the MAGA picture gets grimmer still, with less than a third of American adults approving of Trump, and 53 percent disapproving—48 percent of them doing so “strongly.”
For low-income people and their families, it’s been a hard, complicated week. On November 1, more than 40 million users of SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, did not receive their monthly payments after the Trump administration refused to pay full benefits through emergency funding during the ongoing government shutdown. It would be better, the administration has decided, to weaponize hunger against Democrats, blaming the government shutdown, than to feed people.
On Monday, a court ordered that the Trump administration use contingency funds to fund SNAP, although the Trump administration said it would only fund half the regular amount. It’s unclear whether the White House, which has flip-flopped on SNAP several times in recent weeks, will pull a similar stunt in December if the government shutdown continues—or when the funds for this month will reach people.
And it’s not like the system was perfect. A recent report from the National Domestic Workers Alliance found that in September, 91 percent of domestic workers who responded to the survey—including nannies, home health care aides and house cleaners—said their households struggled with food insecurity in September, when SNAP payments were still in effect.
Airports in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago are among 40 of the busiest across the U.S. where flights will be cut starting Friday due to the government shutdown, according to a list distributed to the airlines and obtained by The Associated Press.
The Federal Aviation Administration announced Wednesday it would reduce air traffic by 10% across “high-volume” markets to maintain travel safety as air traffic controllers go unpaid and exhibit signs of strain during the shutdown.
The affected airports in more than two dozen states include the busiest ones across the U.S., including Atlanta, Denver, Dallas, Orlando, Miami, and San Francisco. In some of the biggest cities — such as New York, Houston and Chicago — multiple airports will be affected.
FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site
The FBI is attempting to unmask the owner behind archive.today, a popular archiving site that is also regularly used to bypass paywalls on the internet and to avoid sending traffic to the original publishers of web content, according to a subpoena posted by the website. The FBI subpoena says it is part of a criminal investigation, though it does not provide any details about what alleged crime is being investigated. Archive.today is also popularly known by several of its mirrors, including archive.is and archive.ph.
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I ended up in Captcha hell trying to archive this, so I'm afraid I can't provide a link.
Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show.
A cache of previously unreported documents reviewed by Reuters also shows that the social-media giant for at least three years failed to identify and stop an avalanche of ads that exposed Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp’s billions of users to fraudulent e-commerce and investment schemes, illegal online casinos, and the sale of banned medical products.
On average, one December 2024 document notes, the company shows its platforms’ users an estimated 15 billion “higher risk” scam advertisements – those that show clear signs of being fraudulent – every day. Meta earns about $7 billion in annualized revenue from this category of scam ads each year, another late 2024 document states.
Much of the fraud came from marketers acting suspiciously enough to be flagged by Meta’s internal warning systems. But the company only bans advertisers if its automated systems predict the marketers are at least 95% certain to be committing fraud, the documents show. If the company is less certain – but still believes the advertiser is a likely scammer – Meta charges higher ad rates as a penalty, according to the documents. The idea is to dissuade suspect advertisers from placing ads.
The documents further note that users who click on scam ads are likely to see more of them because of Meta’s ad-personalization system, which tries to deliver ads based on a user’s interests.
Forget the medium and focus on the New York City mayor-elect’s message – centrists can’t compete with rent freezes, free buses and support for Palestine, says writer Rohan Sathyamoorthy
The automaker announced on Wednesday as part of its “AI Day” that it is launching three robotaxi models. The vehicles will use four of Xpeng’s self-developed “Turing” AI chips. Xpeng claims the chips represent the combined highest in-car computing power in the world, at 3,000 TOPS, an industry measure.
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day. Among its responses to suspected rogue marketers: charging them a premium for ads – and issuing reports on ’Scammiest Scammers.’
Go with me here. Routers are routers, and servers are servers. Some people mix and match things, but generally, ideally, this is how it goes. And I agree.
But the router I just set up, the Google WiFi, has 4gb storage, 512mb of ram, a quad core CPU at 800mhz, is easy to flash, and only costs $10-15 on eBay all day long.
If you used it as only a little computer, no routing.. Then..
If I wanted to say... Set up a tailscale node at my family's house. Why spend $45-80, or even $130(!) on a raspberry pi with an Ethernet port, when the Google WiFi works just as well if not better for that job?
Maybe a tiny matrix server? Tiny web hosting?
Or, for a less ideal solution, but still reasonable. What if I wanted to set up a remote backup node for my main server? If my needs were small enough, the Google WiFi would be much more economical, although you'd need to add a USB hub to break out the USB ports. And there would be limitations obviously.
Or getting really crazy, you could potentially squeeze one or two bigger services onto a router, just to see if it's possible.. Minecraft server?
My question is. What is the best device for this? The Google WiFi is dirt cheap at $10-15, I'm about to pull the trigger on a second one just to play with. But I wanted to see if you guys had any other suggestions?
I tried searching the toh for similar devices, but even restricting it down every way I can think of, I've still got over a hundred devices to look at.
Basically, I think older router hardware is an overlooked, cheaper alternative, to raspberry pis, for some scenarios.
Ah, maybe I wasn't clear. I understand that none of this is "best device for the job".
I mean, I want to tinker with this idea, I want the most bang for my buck while tinkering. Currently the Google WiFi seems capable of some of those goals, and is $10-15. Is there another similarly specced and priced router that you're aware of that also has a USB port exposed for use? And is also $10-15?
It's not that routers are routers and servers are servers, But computers are computers. If the hardware can support the software you want to run, then do it.
That's fair, my thought was just that, while this is low end, it's not THAT low end, and it's reasonably priced for a one off project or something to tinker with.
My question is, the Google WiFi fits the bill pretty close for me and my tinkering desires. And the price is right. But it'd be better with something like an exposed USB port, or heck, maybe even a little more oomph, sure. As long as it's still cheap.
I guess I'm mostly just making conversation about this idea I had. And wondering if anyone knew of a similar spec device with a similar price that might be better suited 🤷♂️
Honestly, I know nothing about that device. The specs you listed seem pretty usable if you're judicious about what software you use. There are plenty of routers getting by on 128MB, or even less. I'm sure at least some of the things you listed are feasible, depending upon how hard you wanna push it.
I have a NanoPi R5S running OpenWrt acting as a router + light NAS and a NanoPi M4 running Armbian (Debian flavor) running a LXQt desktop and they're not bad.
It's worth noting though that because I have a HDD hooked up to the R5S via USB3, when I read or write to it over a 2.5Gbps link, the CPU is like 60-70% busy just handling USB and network interrupts and running NFS. The R5S has a quad A55 CPU at up to 2GHz, so that should give you a rough idea what the R3S is capable of.
In general, older Rockchip CPUs are getting to be fairly well supported these days, and newer ones are getting support a lot faster than the old ones did. But always do your due diligence of course, anything ARM tends to have way more gotchas than x86, and that gets more true as its Chinese-ness increases.
Thanks for the recommendations! Those are really capable looking machines for not much more money. I think that answers my question as to why nobody else is doing this with old routers haha
Also keep in mind that the ARM A5x cores are simple in-order designs intended for max power efficiency, GHz for GHz they are going to be a lot slower than an ARM A7x core or an x86 core, even most x86 "little" cores made in the last 5 years will be considerably faster at the same clock rate.
Tailscale will perform poorly on a CPU of that capability if you try to push much data through it. It's nowhere near as performant as Wireguard on the same hardware.
I haven't confirmed this, but my understanding is that with Tailscale the packets need to be shuffled into and out of userspace, whereas with straight Wireguard they stay entirely in kernelspace.
Either way I was unpleasantly surprised to see Tailscale performing worse than I expected based on raw Wireguard performance on a few ARM based routers I own. Quad 800MHz ARM will be pretty slow for any sort of bulk data transfer. But for light web browsing, ssh, etc it will probably be fairly usable.
You can totally do this but there are a few gottas:
Make sure you have external storage. Do not rely on the internal flash as it isn't designed for frequent writes
Keep your performance expectations in check
My advise would be to spend a bit more and get something a little nicer. Find something with a relatively new Qualcomm chipset. I would also recommend that you get one or more dedicated APs.
Neither the Google WiFi nor an RPI make a good nas server, but either would certainly work. Some routers even have m.2 or USB connectors specifically for that reason.
For a simple web server, there's even an nginx package for OpenWRT, so you have reverse proxying and basic web hosting on that Google puck with just a couple clicks.
Another interesting possibility is putting a tftp server on your router, and using it as a pxe server.
Plenty of options, if you don't mind the performance.
I have several of the Google WiFi pucks, myself. Flashing them wasn't too complicated, but it does involve disassembly. One of them was my primary router for a while, until it was eventually replaced by a banana pi. It handled the typical routing tasks, plus ad blocking, a VPN, etc. without issue.
Like I said, I believe there's an nginx package for OpenWRT, serving static web pages should be trivial. If I recall correctly, it only has 8gb of sausage and a half gig of RAM, though. Plenty for a router or static web server, but not a lot of resources for anything too complex. I wonder if you could squeeze a GoToSocial instance in there... That might be fun, actually. I've been tinkering with Home Assistant lately, but maybe once that's "finished", GTS on a WiFi puck might be my next project. Hm...
Thank God! Let's get in someone that will fight for the people. Let's pass universal healthcare, 6 months paternity and maternity leave, childcare, etc
Die Erde steuert auf eine Erwärmung von bis zu 2,8 Grad gegenüber dem vorindustriellen Niveau zu. Der Klimaexperte Niklas Höhne sagt: Die Folgen wären unbeherrschbar - aber es sei noch nicht zu spät.
The mayor-elect built the greatest field operation by any political campaign in the city’s history – by getting New Yorkers to talk to eachother. Can Democrats learn from his success?
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in reply to frongt • • •Your terminology is all wonky here...
Downloading is copying a file from the network onto the local device. Installation extracts files to the appropriate directories, makes config changes, etc.. "Installed from a local source" doesnt make sense, as any file you would install you would first need to download or pull off of some other media.
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in reply to FUCKING_CUNO • • •You don't say "downloaded from a cd" do you? No, you install from a cd. If the primary delivery method for PC was via app store, you'd say "sideloaded" there too.
Downloading from an app store doesn't place an installer APK from an app store on the device's storage, like you do when downloading on a PC.
This difference is why the term "sideloading" was coined, to differentiate from using the primary delivery mechanism, the app store.
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in reply to frongt • • •Fixed that for you. Why would the local, direct installation method be the "side" one? Have you become that terminally online?
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in reply to Aarrodri • • •Install is an umbrella term for all installs.
We want to be able to differentiate between direct and store installs.
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in reply to Phoenixz • • •It's useful to have specific words for things.
Sometimes you want to express that you're specifically eating meat, not vegetables. The word food doesn't do that.
It's fine to want to install "from ANY place".
Sometimes you want to express that you're installing from local source not from the app store. The word install doesn't do that.
Phoenixz
in reply to earthworm • • •So here is an idea, and hear me out on this one: you could use multiple words to indicate what you're trying to say, I do believe language allows for that.
Unless you want to have separate new words for walking to a hospital, walking to a school, walking to work, and walking to the bathroom, because the word walking alone can't do that!
earthworm
in reply to Phoenixz • • •Meat used to refer to any kind of food. Now it means animal flesh. Girl used to be a gender neutral term for any child.
Install in a smartphone context means "from the app store" now.
No amount of "here is an idea" hohoho sarcasm is going to reverse the flow of language.
No one's forbidding you from using the word install.
We have universal words like go, as in "go by foot" or "go by car" or "go by bus".
But we also have words like walk, run, drive, bus (as a verb), and Uber to specify how you go to a place.
And we can have words to specify how you install an app.
In my opinion, we're more likely to win by reclaiming sideloading (by giving it a positive connotation) or creating new words (and giving corpo installs a negative connotation) than we are to get current and future smartphone users to go back to using an older definition of the word install.
caseyweederman
in reply to Aarrodri • • •I'm not sure why you're helping them.
like this
PokyDokie e TVA like this.
Tynan
in reply to 鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma) • • •thatonecoder
in reply to Tynan • • •Ilandar
in reply to 鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma) • • •GitHub - sam1am/anyapk: Install any apk on the device you own.
GitHubnullptr
in reply to 鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma) • • •qwestjest78
in reply to 鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma) • • •So I'm going to put this out there, why watch this content on a Android that we will have less and less control over as time goes on?
Grab a laptop with Linux on it and go wild. I now have a computer hooked up to my TV and I don't have to worry about any of Google's bullshit
ook
in reply to qwestjest78 • • •I know there's many people who cannot understand why others like to watch media on their phones, but that is how it is. You basically have that device anywhere with you, screens are big enough to watch stuff on.
Especially if you have saved movies/series on it, no matter if piracy or not, you got sonething to watch on that long train ride to work, or in your lunch break, or when you wait for some appointment.
Source: me, I am one of those. I am not taking my laptop everywhere. Even the smallest feasibly usable laptop is much bigger than my phone.
admin
in reply to qwestjest78 • • •Sturgist
in reply to qwestjest78 • • •I've been trying to convince him to finally get around to actually getting something low cost, but his "setup" has been working for him for years now